Garment-hanger.



PATENTED- AUG. 27, 1907.

E. 0. FELLROTH. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED A UG. 25, 1906.

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" UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ERICK O. FELLROTH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOARCHIBALD F. McD. CRAIG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .A 'ug. 27, 1907.

Application filed August 25,1906, Serial 110.331.972-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enron O. FELLROTH, a citizenof Sweden, residing inthe city and county of San Francisco and State of California, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to garment holding devices, and especially todevices designed to hold coats, vests, skirts, trousers and the like.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical,collapsible holder, which will occupy very little room when not in use;which can be opened out to support a coat, and which will also have across-bar over which a pair of trousers may be hung; said crossbarserving to maintain the arms of the holder in distended position. I

The invention consists of the parts and the construetion and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of my improved holder open for use. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation showing the: holder in its folded position.

AA represent two rigid arms of suitable size, shape and material pivotedto' a central support 2 insuch manner as to be extended for use orfolded downward into parallel collapsed position suitable for packing ina small space. The support 2 is preferably of sheet metal bent into asubstantially inverted-U- shaped housing for the adjacent ends of thearms, with the topof the plate nicely fashioned so that its curves runinto the curves of the arms when the latter are opened out and offer no.angles or sharp edges for the nected to a respective arm'.

, when the holder is not in use.

arms as shown at 6. The braces are-pivoted together one inside theother, so that one will have a part 7 overlapping the other enough toform a stop against the braces dropping too far when straightened. Thearms fold down and the braces fold up inside the arms When the holder isopened for use, the braces drop until the pivot 8 is a trifle below aline connecting the pivots 6, whereupon a rigid triangular structureresults which is not likely to be collapsed accidentally. The holder ishung up from its center support 2 by means entirely disconnected withthe braces, so thatthe full length of the braces may be utilized to hanga pair of trousers or other things on. This is quite an importantfeature in, garment holders, and especially foldable holders. The meansfor hanging up the holder is here shown as comprising a hook-member 9pivoted to one side 0 the support 2 oelow the pivots 10 of the arms A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

A garment hanger comprising a pair of channel iron arms pivotallyconnected at their inner ends to a central support and adapted to swingdownward into closed position, said support consisting of a plate'bentto embrace the adjacent ends of the arms, said arms having theirchannels under-most, and channel-form brace-sections pivoted together atone end to swing upward inside the arm when the latter are foldeddownward, said brace-sections having their outer ends pivoted betweenthe flanges of the respcctive armsand foldable inside the channels ofthe arms, said sections having their central pivot-connection below theline connecting their pivot-points at their outer ends when the deviceis opened for use, one of said sections slightly overlapping the otherat the inner ends of the sections so that the overlapping portion of theone

